Western Colorado

Water is flowing down the Colorado River as though the Shoshone Power Plant in Glenwood Canyon were operating. Shoshone, however, is generating no electricity as Xcel Energy Inc. is conducting maintenance at the plant, which normally ...

Residents in a Delta neighborhood where police shot and killed a man early Saturday described the man as intoxicated and said he waved a semiautomatic handgun and fired several shots into the air. The Delta Police Department has not released ...

Financial crimes will have a high priority in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Colorado, the new head of the office said. Such cases “are my background,” U.S. Attorney for Colorado John Walsh said last week during a visit to ...

Husband: Send me porn The Mesa County Sheriff’s Department took a report of an alleged sex offense Friday in the 400 block of Mountain Vista Drive. A Clifton woman told deputies that her soon-to-be ex-husband refused to allow her to ...

While he campaigns against the economic stimulus package, Republican congressional candidate Scott Tipton has received $3,700 in campaign contributions from a company that received federal stimulus money. The connection illustrates ...

An Xcel Energy transmission line was knocked out Saturday afternoon, causing several neighborhoods west of Grand Junction to lose power for a few hours. Xcel officials couldn’t be reached late Saturday, but Grand Valley Power President ...

Election Day is nearing, and the number of candidates coming to the region to greet voters reflects it. Starting today, Western Slope voters will see a congressman and two governor candidates this week. Today, U.S. Rep. John Salazar will ...

Early voting at the polls seems to have lost some of its luster in 2010, with voters trickling in to cast ballots compared to previous years. Turnout as of Friday was 19.8 percent, with far more voters choosing the mail-in-ballot route to ...

The Grand Junction Police Department said the driver who crashed his car Thursday into a building owned by St. Mary’s Hospital apparently had a medical condition. Grant Odelberg, 23, was ticketed on suspicion of careless driving after ...